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| Title: | NIGERIA AND THE UNDYING SPIRIT OF SEPARATISM |
| Authors: | Azeez Olusola Olaniyan |
| Keywords: | NIGERIA
UNDYING
SPIRIT
SEPARATISM |
| Issue Date: | 15-Aug-2023 |
| Publisher: | FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OYE EKITI |
| Citation: | Azeez Olusola Olaniyan,2023 |
| Series/Report no.: | 11TH INAGURAL LECTURE; |
| Abstract: | Following on the preamble that I have done, I will give a brief talk on political science, as a way of acknowledging the discipline that propelled me to this podium. Then, I will do a reflection on the state with a focus on the African and Nigerian variants. This will be followed by conceptual and theoretical analyses on the interface between the state and separatism. Thereafter, I will provide some historical and contemporary insights into separatism in Nigeria. I will also discuss reasons for separatist agitations over the years in the country and suggest ways of exorcising such spirit from our body politic. After this, I will conclude the presentation with a theoretical position on the Nigerian context. |
| Description: | Adebayo Williams (2004:399) once observed that political science presents “an elegant but troubling oxymoron” because its object of study, the behaviour of human beings, is the least of all things that can ever be subjected to scientific exactitude. Drawing from Shakespeare’s face-mind dichotomy, Williams noted the difficulty of a scientific study of an object that is characterized by unpredictability. In his words, “the probability and prospects of a science that captures and codes the great irrational dynamics of politics or the greater irrational dynamics that propel its paradigmatic personalities appear more remote”. He did not stop there. |
| URI: | http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/2407 |
| ISSN: | 978-978-60043-9-6 |
| Appears in Collections: | FUOYE INAUGURAL LECTURES
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